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MUCH as it may be regretted that the British School of Archæology in Iraq (Gertrude Bell Memorial), in accordance with the decision announced at the end of last season, will not itself be responsible for expeditions of archæological exploration in its special province, pending more satisfactory arrangements under the antiquities laws of the country, the announcement of the grant of £500 from the funds of the School to Sir Aurel Stein towards the cost of excavating mounds in south-western Persia will afford archæologists some measure of consolation for the suspension of activities in northern Iraq. The archæological work which Sir Aurel proposes to carry out with the assistance of this grant is in continuation of certain investigations which he has made during the past two seasons in south-eastern Persia, where a number of early sites were examined. He will cover a field in which it is anticipated that much needed evidence will be obtained bearing on the relations of the early culture of Elam and possibly, it is hoped, the relationship of the Indus valley civilisation to that of western Asia—at the moment the most intriguing of the problems of Middle Eastern prehistory. It is also announced that the British School has made a grant of £100 towards the expenses of the short season of excavation at Ur which is now opening.
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Archæological Exploration in Persia. Nature 133, 20 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133020a0
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